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UTTON-0R STUD-. No. 294,496. v I Patented Mar. 4, 1884.

. v I INVENTORY UNlTE-D STATES NELS NELSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, HOWARD, OF SAME PLACE.

PATENT OFFICE.

ASSIGNOR TO HIRAM BUTTON OR STUD.

SIECIFICA'IION- forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,496, dated March 4, 1884. Application filed October 29, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,

Be it known that I, NELs N ELSON, of Providence, county of Providence, State of Rhode Island, have invented an-Improvement in Buttons or Studs, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

" spring, as will be described.

Figure 1 represents in vertical section a button embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a de tail of the post detached from the head; Fig. 3, a detail of the anchor-plate; Fig. 4, a detail of the spring; Fig. 5, a detail of the faceplate of the shoe, and Fig. 6 details showing the back-plate of the shoe.

The button-head A has an attached post, B, notched at b b to form wide shoulders 14, and the end of the post turned backward is notched at 15. The face-plate c of the. shoe is a concaved plate. The back-plate c, slotted at a,

is provided with elongated recesses or chambers in which travel the upper portions of the said shoulder next the notches b b, as the shoe 0 is turned .on the post B. The anchorplate d, placed in the shoe between the plates 3 5 6 6 has a wide slot, d, and side notches, 10 10, (see Fig. 3,) into which the Wide edges of the shoulders 14 of the post rest. The spring s,fp1aced in the notch 15, rests at its ends against the concaved side of the face-plate c. 40

The notches b I) receive the edges 8 8 of the back-plate, and the said edges travel in the slots b b as the shoe 0 is turned about the post, the turning-points being where the shoulders 14 come in contact with the anchor-plate.

I claim In a button, the post B, having its end turned 

